Esmond Knight

Date of Birth: 04 May 1906

Country: UK

Biography: An accomplished actor with a career spanning over half a century. For much of his career Esmond Knight was virtually blind. He had been badly injured in 1941 whilst on active service on board HMS Prince of Wales when she fought the Bismarck at the Battle of the Denmark Strait, and remained totally blind for two years, though he later regained some sight in his right eye. Knight and Michael Powell would work together on eleven films.

Biography submitted by driscarpin

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